Bringing newly-installed users into the community (Re: Should XChat default to freenode and #ubuntu?)

[Shimon]

bad idea to patch xchat as its going to be replaced by xchat-gnome
very soon and there is a lot of FUD that the next version will be no
longer GPL.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:22:28 +0100, Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent at spray.se> wrote:
> tor 2005-02-10 klockan 11:48 +1100 skrev Jeff Waugh:
> 
> >ubuntu-users (the list) is scary primarily because of the outrageous amount
> >of traffic. ;-) But #ubuntu is pretty good.
> >
> >- Jeff
> >
> 
> And there are national specific channels aswell on irc.
> For example I found #ubuntu.se, a channel for Sweden. We are about 5-8
> people there time to time.
> If some one was to patch X-chat for better defaults, perhaps some people
> could also add national channels for Ubuntu aswell? Even though some
> nations might be empty, at least them being mentioned might be enough
> for some people to join them later on..?
> Being able to talk in a native language is, at least for me, a good
> thing because its not always easy to express problems when you dont know
> the language that well.
> 
> Perhaps it would be good open up national mailinglists as well? I mean,
> if its in their destiny to be low-traffic, or even non-traffic, its not
> such a big problems since they wont take up any of Ubuntus bandwidth
> then ;)
> 
> I think that things like this, if they were to be implemented, is a good
> thing to mention on the first boot of a fresh install of Ubuntu.  :)
> 
> 
> /Kent Nyberg.
> 
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